and free blog video for your media project free media r t v dot com. thanks and ahmed brands are deployed at the scene of fierce clashes between pro and anti president protesters in egypt's capital cairo five people were killed and many more injured overnight. israel also in danger of losing its top european allies angola bercow was benjamin the thing i always facing political isolation of the southern settlement motion palestine statehood was recently upgraded at the way. the us treasury is legal tentacles as well as the e.u. as a new report to shows washington can potentially axes any european citizens private information stored online shielded by an antiterrorism law.

you're watching r t live from moscow with me good to have you with us egypt has seen some of the bloodiest street battle since an uprising against president morsi began two weeks ago at least five people have been killed and hundreds injured as pro and anti morsi protesters clashed outside the presidential palace tanks and vehicles were deployed to the scene after sporadic fighting continued into this morning the violence has started when thousands of the president's supporters moved into questions sit in of his opponents car a base reporter bell true says the violence has also spread outside the capital. scenes. there have been scuffles on the square here behind me outside the presidential palace i reports the big. ashes have broken out during the day but

basically we've seen very violent scenes overnight my colleague tom barton was that reporting from the scene we're about as close as we cracked to the fighting here in central cairo right near the presidential palace a huge mess as muslim brotherhood supporters up that is pelting stones to the morsy persisters here who are giving as much stones back to the crowds are flowing to and fro injuries are being carried by near schools with head wounds and other wounds from the flying stones moments of cat tails are being thrown the buildings were a savior larry said and the fact it's only is an immensely violent situation even just send it from an earlier in the day when the players who are supporters arrived at the un to you know see a protesters camp dismantle that i'm attached to them this is the result i want to take. action i think i want to come statesman. in the streets who we're seeing

violence in other cities like a series and it's been a year in particular the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood have been attacked which is that which has already happened last week during the days of clashes between rival protest groups following morsi is what they called power grab concessions that gratian we would himself sweeping powers and of course the constitution which is being put to referendum you're supposedly next week which are many of the opposition groups seized it to see this president morsi has yet to come forward and address his opposition which has been one of the major criticisms of him in addition there's been some reaction from his aides several members of the presidential committee have quit in protest of of this in addition we've had reports he says news wires that the interior ministry is calling this a civil war although i think this is probably an overstatement but definitely we are seeing unprecedented levels of violence between citizens including possibly use of like i'm going to sion definite use of guns. although and gentle as rams of our

it says the i'm dressed as a fall of former law says revolution which has taken on a life of its own. i think what's happening in egypt is not revolution if it's not civil war it's certainly not reproduction the revolution in the popular sense we haven't really seen that what is underway in egypt is that the. jews who brought the revolution and those who have succeeded along with the revolution to achieve many of its objectives are no divide and no they are divided about political and partly ideological principles it's not exactly value driven it's politically driven type of clashes it's not a revolution but rather the revolution is right now feeding on itself and it's eating its own children my opinion in order for the political elites for various political parties to concentrate their power and their hold over power in egypt.

fear is in the air and the headlines over syria's conflict in chemical weapons plans later in the program reports on the nerve agent rumors of raising racing through the media which critics say is another attempt to fly our greatest sympathy and backing for the rebels. there is a frosty atmosphere between israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and one of his close as european allies the german chancellor angela merkel as they began their annual meeting in berlin now to knows that he was disappointed over germany's choice to abstain on palestine statehood bid in the un general assembly in palestine was granted nonmember observer state status at the end of november with nearly all of europe supporting it or abstaining less than a day after that israel announced plans to build three thousand homes on palestinian land a move condemned by germany and the rest of the e.u. in my perl has worn out reality reese political isolation massive military trade

deals between the two states so expect it to go ahead on the other hand of free trade with the e.u. as something being supposedly serve in palestine isn't allowed. i have as active ports. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in the legal segment your see farmers

this land is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. because i was told here you can. see my circle where i was told i could it's more the state of israel tells me it's time to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i go there was nothing if you . live in denmark and the united kingdom goods coming from settlements in the west bank already has to be marked differently to denote that it's not from israel the collective n.g.o.s want to see this implemented europe wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from this is are you sure this comes from spain. is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even

even though you think they get jordan they. israeli checkpoints keep them at the checkpoints for days under the sun. and then you can eat vegetables anymore those behind the report into trade between the settlements in europe so they aren't trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel itself we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. legal israeli products which should be washed by european citizens as much the courses should and certain products which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not buy. just ahead an r g it's a gloomy diagnosis for british taxpayers the country's economy gets a prescription from the finance minister public being force fed tax hikes and

spending. information that the europeans keep stored online for example so called cloud service could be accessed by u.s. law enforcement agencies that's according to a report issued by one university in amsterdam which revealed the anti terrorism patriot act gives washington legal grounds to bypass europe's privacy laws one of the authors of the report. says that such a breach of privacy would never happen possible in the old offline world. normally in an offline world you would have cooperation between governments that would respect international human rights standards but as these companies in the cloud are often conducting systematic best business and united states direct access to warrant all over the world internet surveillance is increasing and it's quite breakneck speed so

a solution would be. to at least try and come to some international standard of how to resolve all this and what does privacy mean i know that this is a very ambitious goal but as we all move into the internet and as we all as it all becomes a part of our daily lives free speech and privacy online is becoming ever more important. syria's chemical weapons arsenal is again a weapon up a frenzy at least in the us media and i'm named american official has reportedly said damascus has begun on me stockpiles it's impossible to verify the u.n. skeptics are saying news off the spread internationally to justify greater aid for rebels or even intervention meanwhile another car bomb has gone off in the red cross and take orders in damascus as turmoil in syria six beyond the country's borders middle east expert to add meant syria could further inflame the entire region. the danger of what's happening in syria is that

we are seeing increased emphasis on sectarian identities sectarian war. and this is likely to spread this is the danger of the syrian equation we are likely to see an escalation of the tensions and we are likely to see your spread of this confrontation to other countries in the region. likely to take on more sectarian more ideological confrontation lebanon is a very fragile country a country of money. and sectarian groups jordan is another candidate turkey is also vulnerable because it faces tensions with itself. likely to take. more ideological confrontation and this is on top of that we are likely to see more and more of the regional powers drawn into this conflict as we are seeing international powers have been drawn into it as well. the u.s.

breach the chinese tower in major labels on its own soil we tell you about private spending tens of millions of dollars on lobbying stricter laws during the biggest companies to do business after the break. a forty nine year old southern california man was rolled in president charles with possessing materials to make an explosive device all because of his rather unusual wristwatch despite the bomb squad saying that his watch was not a weapon here waited custody for twenty four hours and was charged with the crime anyways a spokesman for the el meter county sheriff's department said that the man's watch had all the components to make an improvised explosive device minus the explosive material you know having a lighter in your pocket is also everything you need to self exposure minus the gun

powder but before we make a victim out of this watch where i have to point out one thing the watch she was wearing was designed to look like some sort of bomb with fuses and wires and switches so who's more idiotic someone who wears a device that looks like a bomb on an airplane or a government who convict someone for having the components of a bomb without that bit of the bomb that makes a blow up i'd say both are pretty dumb but that's just my opinion. welcome to the. audience technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world from the streets of canada. change operation through. gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. but also among brothers involved and since i started working when i stayed here i look at it if it multinationals. to be milked dry and if i think that in this country it's gold medal as an environmental cost which is unacceptable you know countries and this was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. we are forced

to pay protection to illegal groups prices colombia going to pay. the full. effect on r.t. . this is our team while the rest of the u.s. may be struggling for work this current q a real bam of jobs. in the country by states and some of the biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available workforce tens of millions of dollars spent by private prisons to keep the jails full arches them she can takes up the story. in the us the market for cheap labor is booming behind bars in the last fifteen years

partnership between prisons and private manufacturers has increased significantly there are becoming america's very own chinese style manufacturing line behind prison walls prisons in fact advertise themselves as such as an alternative to outsourcing cheap labor to china or elsewhere on the web we came across this pitch that prisons prepared to persuade private sector companies to come and do business with them take a look. there is not enough folks that will do this type of work in this country so therefore we're bringing bringing back this industry that is strictly has been going out of this country and we're putting it you know inside the laws and it's absolutely a perfect idea. a workforce that is not the kind of problems or baby sitting senator always here always comes to learn. your business or leave a wide variety of industries take advantage of prison labor among many other things

prisoners make clothing textiles electronics furniture and even solar panels just as we're trying to get china to start with their prison labor hours isn't the same . hundreds of companies have used prison labor directly or through subcontractors including microsoft boeing starbucks tory secret and others. or federal tax. rate compensated up to forty percent of the way to generate tax payers to howards the need to provide medical care and everything. we do there's a taxpayer it comes out of the tax and back he the actual purging we're already healthy and in shape to go out and. private companies hard working and reliable make sure want to work every day well. terribly work in prison is mandatory and the

choice many inmates have is whether to work for a government run prison industry for less than a dollar an hour or a private one for a minimum wage or for around six dollars unique or is a government owned corporation that uses prison labor to produce all kinds of goods mainly for other government agencies one hundred seventy five different types of products and services you see the variety listed on their website they to partner up with private firms now last year unique course revenue nine hundred million dollars as far as private prisons are concerned two of the country's biggest prison corporations made three point three billion dollars last year alone private prisons are created in the york stock exchange they are for profit companies and the savings that they reap from using inmate labor. go to their bottom line it's money they otherwise don't have to. keep. large prison populations and harsh sentences result in greater profits america's three major private prison

companies spend around forty five million dollars over the past ten years on lobbying state and federal governments for supporting immigrant detention mandatory minimum sentences three strikes laws and other legislative measures that contribute to the growth of america's gigantic prison population the us now holds more people behind bars than any other nation more than two million that's one quarter of all prisoners in the world from a cost effectiveness point of view the forty five million dollars that private prisons have reportedly spent over the past decade lobbying to keep prisons fall he's peanuts compared to the new ins that they make every year one can argue about the many causes and effects of america's skyrocketing incarceration rate but since prisons became a for profit industry in the u.s. thirty years ago the number of prisoners has gone up dramatically not to say that it was the only cause behind the spike but many argue will support of it and now with the cheap labor market expanding behind american bars one is wondering whether

the justice system in the u.s. is adopting market values in washington i'm going to check on. on our website the cable company which once you know you better much better telecom giant files a paid employee with a plan that will do what you do while you watch t.v. it's all designed to better target you with advertising. and do you as man susan taser international after releasing let's take you to him in his own home or you can have brain damage get along to our website for that and. also actually seems to be the future for britain at least where the government extended its massive cuts program for five more years a defined finance minister waved away media approach as saying tax hikes would help heal the country's ageing economy. has more now on london's proposed cure all everyone now madly picking their way through the facts and figures and wow was

there a lot of figures one thing was very very clear and that's that the u.k. is set to face even more austerity you know what those figures showed us was that the u.k. economy is going to shrink by not point one percent in five years twenty twelve now it sounds like a small amount but of course no sign of all importing growth in fact what we're seeing is that borrowing has gone up we think that the debt has risen and fallen and most crucially i think it's probably the fact that the government had no reduction target so we're now facing an extended austerity program is going to say it's right away three to twenty eightieth's a pretty gloomy outlook and this is what we were expecting a bit of course but going to really not be what millions of families all across the are going to want to hear and of course this is really going to bring in real terms . among the demonstrators there was kate hudson from the mt cuts coalition of

resistance who feels it's the multibillion pound nuclear weapons program that should be getting the axe. britain spending on nuclear weapons this is not the fundamental issue it's something that the vast majority of the population is a great currently we are spending three billion pounds a year just on maintaining existing systems we know the government wants to spend a hundred billion pounds on replacing this weapons of mass destruction system what could backed by britain that could buy incredible amounts of investment in really industrial development sustainable energy investment things that would really work to regenerate our economy yet that is tinkering around the edges our government needs to address these problems it's elected by the people to provide services for the people to make our country run properly it's not a government that's been elected to help the big corporations we have to see a change here. jenison some other international news in brief at least eight people

have been killed after a five point five magnitude earthquake hit eastern iran border with afghanistan there are fears a number of casualties could rise as emergency workers struggle to rescue those who are trapped under the rubble of the quake has caused devastation to more than a dozen villages damaging buildings and cutting power and phone lines this. time for involve all which has been battering the philippines for the last two days has left almost three hundred fifty dead the storm moved out of a populated areas midday on wednesday tens of thousands fled their homes as the heavy rains and winds rolled across southern and central regions of the country cutting off power into entire province is rescue teams have been working in the worst hit areas but it's feared the number of casualties will go higher. a russian state t.v. channel presenter has been killed in the capital of

a sovereign republic two unidentified men approached twenty six year old cast back to kiev as he was heading home after presenting his evening news programme colleagues say they asked him whether he was indeed the news anchor before shooting him in the head and chest two armies presenters in the same region have recently received death threats and the company was called to take them off way hours after the assassination the car of the republic's deputy transport minister was also blown up and the city official was said to have suffered shrapnel wounds but his life is not in danger. coming up is one of our g.'s interesting and exciting documentaries. the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest but here in new directions crime hundred kilometers north of la de vos stalk as in much of the world it's

disappearing at a catastrophic rate. bloggers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy longer set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be

easy to forests. and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find follett tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some more you go has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground just soft here which means that there's twelve tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quite. in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he's overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote

the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now is a start of the year for more whole forest legislation so assumes the pals and so on regards a new forest court and according to be a lot of for us that's sort of the guys in waltham in the in the forest to the still forest courts deal doesn't work just you. know do it there's no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china and what will the people who live afterwards do like it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. just

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most and i get to. do this art form that i've come up i've started doing in the last four years and it's just opened my eyes to so many different things and it was all inspired by burning around and it was just a coincidence because i was making costumes for myself and i had decided to make myself a coat and as i was finishing it the first person that came over to visit me said what is that and i said that's my royal row because i had realized when i had put it on it wasn't just a fur coat it actually was a royal row and that's when i became. so the first person who came in and said i want one of those and i said well it's going to be for five hundred dollars because it's expensive for me he said no problem. and he had me custom it so he could put his.